Facebook And Family Case Study

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Introduction
In this academic work, the Facebook effect on family will be discussed. Firstly, the orientation and background information will be given, and secondly, the terms Facebook and family will be defined. Thirdly, the essay will investigate the parent-child relationship by getting an in depth to understanding the effects of Facebook on parent-child intimacy and family as a whole, followed by factors affecting intimacy to show how Facebook contributes to the manner in which parents and children interacts with each other. Lastly, a conclusion will follow to show how Facebook helps facilitate online communication of intimacy of parent-child relation relationships that affects the family structure.
1. Background information and orientation …show more content…

Authoritative parents have high esteem children that learn to take responsibilities and make wiser choices, which makes them less likely to get involved in risky behaviours such as heavy drinking or drug usage. According to (Mullen and Hamilton, 2016) the relationship that exist within the parent-child relations refers to the state of intimacy before Facebook was introduced into the relationship but if the relations was already intimate, then Facebook is less pronounced (Kanter and Robbins, …show more content…

Many considers transparency of Facebook as a way of letting their parent into to their social world in the hope of improving the parent-child relationship. Correspondingly, the parents saw the child’s friendship request as an indication that the child is not hiding anything from them, which made them feel close to the child in turn (Boyd and Ellison 2007). Thus, it can be said that the transparency of Facebook facilitates a channel that allows parents-child relations to reveal to one another what is happening in their life without having the awkward face-to-face interaction and are able to communicate affection to each other from a

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